Simple Things still important in Energy Costs

In our capacity as Energy Assessors, we have visited many different businesses over the past year. One theme that is consistent across business sectors is that effective Energy Management still depends fundamentally on a few simple basic principles. We have made a list below of a few simple questions that a business can ask itself in order to get an idea of how effective their Energy Management approach is.

Energy management: start here.

Ask the following questions:

1. Would we like to reduce our energy costs?
   
2. Do we look at all our energy related bills routinely?
   
3. Do we have access to an individual who understands the bills?
   
4. Question 2 can be reduced to an even simpler question; does someone in the organisation really understand what a kilowatt-hour is?
   
5. Do we know where our energy is being used?
   
6. Does someone in the organisation understand the relationship between the use of the energy and the bill? This really boils down to understanding, in a substantial way, the effect on the bill of using a particular energy consumer that is part of the organisation's operation.
   

If the answer to all the above is YES, then the next question is-WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?